Today In History

EDITORIAL

1492: Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.

1811: Elisha Otis, founder of the elevator company that still bears his name, was born in Halifax, Vt.

1936: Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.

1943: Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice. (Patton was later ordered by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to apologize for this and a second, similar episode.)

1966: Jorgensen's, Aberdeen's newest men's shop, opened at

417 S. Main St.

1974: The Gettysburg School district built a new gym that would seat 1,500.